That’s one of the most humble CEOs I’ve ever heard of. Most will spin you a yarn a mile long about how all their success was their own brilliant strategy. Their survivorship bias regarding all the ones that were just as capable and worked just as hard, but never got their shot or were effectively given a field promotion to captain of a sinking ship is wild. Their self-awareness, and recognition of the field of corpses they happen to be the last-man-standing in frequently seems to be lacking.

And as for the parasites in the boardroom, the decision to move executive compensation packages to stock options instead of a salary decades ago had consequences I don’t think the Old Money folks fully respected. How the parasites came to control that grade of F.U. money is not trivial.